On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:05:35PM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote: > > From: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0600 > > > > Here is the catch, he is right and you are not. > > The topic is the evilness of threading and how it relates to > spl(). You are welcome to offer actual content on the subject. Proof > by violent assertion is a waste of everybody's time.
I started typing and there was no end to where to go. This is one of those "read the code" things. Explaining this to the layman is like explaining (to a much lesser extent obviously) particle physics. It requires insight from the reader and unfortunately that is often lacking. I am not a good enough teacher to be able to explain these things in different enough terms. > > > In case you were humour impaired, I was not seriously claiming > that everything in the world ought to be GCed. That makes about as > much sense as claiming that the processes and pipes model of > concurrent programming is the only one that should be used. I'm not > claiming the former, but some seem to be claiming the latter despite > sitting in front of a counterproof. I have no idea what you just said.